Idaho-based electric lineworkers college, Northwest Lineman College expands to Texas

Talk about major transmission line plans has Mike Hennessey, president of campus operations for Northwest Lineman College http://www.lineman.edu/ , in Kuna, feeling good about being in the electric transmission business.

The U.S. Department of Energy predicts the country will need almost 60,000 miles of distribution line to accommodate all the renewable and traditional energy projects planned to accommodate the country’s growing energy needs, he said. Meanwhile, much of the transmission infrastructure in use today is 50 to 80 years old.

by Anne Wallace Allen

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